World watches as Danes venture below zero

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Series Details 24.8.12
Publication Date 24/08/2012
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Article reports that of all the many striking policy measures taken since the financial crisis hit the world in 2007, one of the most extraordinary had gone almost unremarked – the introduction of negative official interest rates by Denmark in July 2012 by Danmarks Nationalbank.

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Denmark: Danmarks Nationalbank: Press Release, 5.8.12: Interest rate reduction http://www.nationalbanken.dk/DNUK/PressRoom.nsf/side/C1256BE9004F4A14C1257A32004CFDB2/$file/DNN201216563.pdf
Reuters, 5.7.12: Denmark sets a negative rate for first time http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/denmark-rates-idUKL6E8I5A8520120705

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